Department of Arctic Environmental Health, Northwest Public Health Research Center, 191036 St-Petersburg, Russia.
Institute of Northern Engineering and Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Feb 27;16(5):696. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16050696.
The article is the last in the series of four that present the results of a study on environmental contaminants in coastal Chukotka, conducted in the context of a multi-disciplinary investigation of Indigenous foodways in the region. The article presents the Recommended Food Daily Intake Limit (RFDIL) guidelines of the locally harvested foods in coastal Chukotka. The guidelines were developed based on the results of the analysis of the legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and metals found in the samples of locally harvested food, which was collected in 2016 in the villages of Enmelen, Nunligran, and Sireniki on the south coast of the Chukchi Peninsula, Russian Arctic. The overall aim of the article is to expand the toolset for dealing with the challenges of: (1) setting the dietary recommendations when we assess multiple contaminants in a variety of foods (and our method of RFDILs calculation is an example of a possible approach), and (2) managing the real-life circumstances when many types of foods are mixed in many dishes regularly and the concentrations of contaminants in these mixed dishes become uncertain. Drawing on perspectives from the fields of environmental health sciences, humanities, social sciences, and visual art, the authors consider the RFDILs of the examined foods in the context of the culinary practices and aesthetics values (those that relate to the culturally held ideas of beauty ascribed to a dish or the processes of its preparation and consumption) of the Indigenous Arctic cuisine in the region of the Bering Strait, and in the broader dynamics of food and culture.
本文是系列文章中的第四篇，介绍了在对该地区原住民饮食方式进行多学科调查的背景下，对楚科奇沿海地区环境污染物进行的研究结果。本文提出了楚科奇沿海地区当地收获食品的推荐每日摄入量限制 (RFDIL) 指南。该指南是基于 2016 年在楚科奇半岛南部海岸的恩梅伦、努利格兰和西雷尼基村收集的当地收获食品样本中分析发现的传统持久性有机污染物 (POPs) 和金属的结果制定的。本文的总体目标是扩展工具包，以应对以下挑战：(1) 在评估多种食物中的多种污染物时制定饮食建议（我们的 RFDIL 计算方法就是一种可能的方法），以及 (2) 管理日常生活中的情况，即多种食物经常混合在许多菜肴中，这些混合菜肴中的污染物浓度变得不确定。作者借鉴了环境健康科学、人文学科、社会科学和视觉艺术领域的观点，根据白令海峡地区的原住民北极美食的烹饪实践和美学价值观（与一道菜或其准备和消费过程中所赋予的文化美感观念相关的那些价值观），以及更广泛的食物和文化动态，考虑了所研究食品的 RFDIL。
